Gizem Candan
© Photo by Philip Vile, Invasive Palette by Gizem Candan, 2025.
Invasive Palette — Gizem Candan
Winter Window Exhibition — December 19 to January 8, 2026.
Closing Reception on January 8, 2026, from 5 to 7 PM.
Visible from Saint-Hubert Street during our winter holidays closure.
Invasive Palette is an immersive installation and an ongoing mono material-based research that investigates the colours through pigments and dyes extracted from different parts of common buckthorn—an invasive exotic shrub. This work examines material memory, identity, and immigrant diasporas and opens up a new perspective of waste economies in the city and encourages the public to slow down and imagine the potential colours of our surrounding waste—not just as a product, but as living entities.
© Photo Credits: Gizem Candan, photo by Sarah Bodri, 2025.
Gizem Candan (b. Istanbul, Turkey) is a visual artist and curator based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, with a focus on painting, pigments, biomaterials and sustainability. She recently graduated from OCAD University in Toronto with an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice. Her artistic and curatorial practice explores the intricate relationship between the human figure and the landscape, approaching both as physical and metaphorical bodies; examines cycles of life, material memories and immigrant diasporas.